Eagle Plains Resources Announces Craig Bay Drill Results

Eagle Plains Resources (TSX-V: EPL) has received final assay results from an 8-hole, 2484 ft (757 m) diamond drilling program on the project at the Karin Lake Uranium property in northern Saskatchewan, located 50 kilometers southeast of the Key Lake mine.

The drill program was designed to test a coincident airborne-EM anomaly and topographic lineament with known historical uranium showings in bedrock and associated radon-in-soil anomalies. Six of the eight holes encountered anomalous gamma counts at or near the base of graphite-rich metasediments of the Wollaston Group, in contact with basement granite, pegmatite and gneiss.

Table 1: 2008 DDH holes at Craig Bay with analytical results from SRC. Gamma counts using a 2PGA-1000 downhole scintillometer (except where noted*). * Counts using a RS-125 hand held scintillometer.

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                      Best                                       U     Th
Hole   From          Gamma     SRC      From         Interval  total  total
Number  (m)   To(m) cnts/sec Sample#     (m)   To(m)    (m)     ppm    ppm
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KL08001  34.5   35.9    3958    82014   34.39  35.88    0.49    250     16
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KL08001                         82017    36.3  36.45    0.15    282    202
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KL08002  36.4   37.3   10508    82034    36.9  37.56    0.66    500     26
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KL08003 57.75  57.75   8674*    82059   57.70  57.80    0.10    390     34
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KL08004  38.0   42.2    6800    82071   38.02  39.85    1.83    401     22
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KL08005  109   114.5    3290    82084   113.4  114.4    1.00    160     52
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KL08006 128.65 131.25   9646    82107   127.97 128.26   0.29    420     42
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KL08006                         82109   130.19 130.37   0.18    210     32
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KL08007 116.95 117.45   1952    82131   115.91 117.89   1.98     5      31
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KL08008 41.95  42.00    376     82139   40.13  40.90    0.77    14      26
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The mineralization appears to coincide with pegmatite and fault breccia units located at the metasediment/granite contact. At least one occurrence of U-mineralization hosted in graphite-rich metasediments was noted in the drill core. The contact zones are also overprinted by a moderate to strong hematite with chlorite and clay alteration. This combination of alteration and mineralization straddling multiple lithologies, strongly suggests both a primary and secondary genesis of the U-mineralization.

Field crews have been mobilized to continue exploration of the Karin Lake / Eagle Lake / Kulyk Lake properties (EPL NR 19/06/08). The Craig Bay uranium showing is located along the southeast margin of a 27 kilometer long conductive EM anomaly ring feature, entirely within the Karin Lake property claim area. At least two other uranium mineral occurrences along this ring feature have seen historical drilling which proved graphite dominant horizons to explain the EM-conductor. The focus will be to explore for uranium deposits along the ring EM-conductive feature at intersections with north to northwest-trending faults which are interpreted to have formed structural traps where uranium mineralization may have been preserved.

Eagle Plains management continues to be encouraged by the potential for an economic uranium discovery in the Karin Lake / Eagle Lake / Kulyk Lake area. The 2008 program only tested approximately 800m of the 27km length EM-conductor. Analysis of 2007 fieldwork results and advanced processing of the airborne geophysical data have identified a number of high priority exploration targets throughout 100% EPL controlled 69,000 hectare project area.

Overall project supervision is provided by C.C. Downie, P.Geo., Director and Exploration Manager of Eagle Plains, who is identified as a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.

Eagle Plains anticipates $6M in exploration expenditures in 2008, with 14 individual projects scheduled for work. 6 projects are expected to see diamond drilling this year, with approximately 5500m (18,000') in total footage planned to date. Approximately 1/2 of the total expenditures will be incurred by third parties under various option agreements currently in place.

For additional information on these and other Eagle Plains projects, please refer to our website at www.eagleplains.com .